A Family Occupation : Children of the War and the Memory of World War II in D…

Many of today's Dutch writers were children during World War II. Even today, the traumatic childhood experience of enemy occupation is still central to the work of many of them. This interest cuts across the traditional boundaries between fiction, autobiography and the literature of trauma and recovery. A Family Occupation is the first English-language introduction to Dutch-language texts writt…

Empire Under the Microscope: Parasitology and the British Literary Imagination

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture,Empire Under the Microscopeexplores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor-P…

The Demography of Disasters = Impacts for Population and Place

This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) a…

A Topos Subverted = Italy in the 20th and 21st century German literary imagin…

What has become of the literary topos “Italy”—once so central to German literature—in the 20th and early 21st centuries? Does it still have a role to play in the German self-understanding and in what way has this role changed? To address these questions, this study focusses on six texts. Each text revises, subverts, and radicalises this literary topos such that it gains new contemporary…

Empire Under the Microscope

This open access book considers science and empire, and the stories we tell ourselves about them. Using British Nobel laureate Ronald Ross (1857-1932) and his colleagues as access points to a wider professional culture, Empire Under the Microscope explores the cultural history of parasitology and its relationships with the literary and historical imagination between 1885 and 1935. Emilie Taylor…

The Cost of Insanity in Nineteenth-Century Ireland

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China's global political economy: managerial perspectives

Introduction and overview / Robert Taylor -- Political economy -- China's "new normal" growth trajectory : regional and global implications / Lucia Morales and Bernadette Andreosso-O'Callaghan -- Origins and dimensions of the 21st century maritime silk road : experimental patch-work or grand strategy? / Robert Pauls and Joern-Carsten Gottwald -- Urban- rural differences in social policies : the…

Sir Charles Grandison

Sir Charles Grandison by Samuel Richardson is a celebrated 18th-century novel that explores themes of virtue, honor, and romance through the life of its titular character, Sir Charles Grandison. Renowned for his moral integrity and compassion, Sir Charles serves as an ideal gentleman in a society riddled with complex social expectations and moral dilemmas. The novel examines his relationships, …

Africa in international politics :external involvement on the continent

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History, space, and place

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